Categoricalsemantics (also called Functorial semantics), which is most easily understood as an algebraic semantics (and so is an axiomatic semantics), but which can also be understood as a kind of denotational semantics, and indeed familiarity with category theory is today a requirement for understanding most work in denotational semantics;

Game semantics was proposed as a kind of denotational semantics, but it has a dynamical aspect that allows it to be understood as a kind of operational semantics.

The semantics does not assume any particular relationship between the denotation of a URI reference and a document or Web resource which can be retrieved by using that URI reference in an HTTP transfer protocol, or any entity which is considered to be the source of such documents.

The 'intensional' semantics described in the main text provides for most common uses of subclass and subproperty assertions, and allows for simpler implementations of a complete set of RDFS entailment rules, described in section 7.3.

Semantics is the study of the relationship between words and their meanings.

Semantics can be defined in a narrow sense as the study of the relationship between words and their meaning--in other words, the study of how words mean and how such variables as context, connotation, and intent influence the meaning of a word or statement.

Semantics is a part of the larger discipline of semiotics, the study of meaning in general, covering the importance of all communication symbols, both verbal and non-verbal.

A question asked is if meaning is established by looking at the neighbourhood in the semantic net a word is part of and by looking at the other words it occurs with in natural sentences or if the meaning is already locally contained in a word.

Semantics asks how we can use language to express things about the real world and how the meanings of linguistic expressions can reflect people's thoughts.

Semantic knowledge is compositional; the meaning of a sentence is based on the meanings of the words it contains and the order they appear in.

Recent work in semantics has been examining the semantic underdeterminacy thesis, which holds that natural language sentences usually leave a lot to the imagination – they do not provide all the information needed for their meaning to be understood, and further processing is necessary for an interpretation to be reached.

The orthogonality of basic specifications in Casl with respect to the rest of the language is reflected in the semantics by the use of a variant of the notion of institution [21] called an institution with symbols [35].

The semantics of basic specifications introduces a particular institution with symbols, and the rest of the semantics is based on an arbitrary institution with symbols.

Apart from polishing the full semantics of Casl and from consideration of the semantics of sublanguages and extensions of Casl, the development of a proof system for Casl is the main work remaining for the semantics task group.

From the distinct sounds of words, semantics, a division of the linguistic sciences, attempts to reconcile any differences and arrive at a single meaning.

Over the centuries semantics was, and still is, a profoundly complex undertaking, one which demands that different traditional meanings also be considered (sociolinguistics).

Not only is society overly reliant on science to provide all the answers these days, specifically in sociology and psychology, when in fact these sciences have overstepped their capabilities in these fields, perpetuating beliefs based on concocted evidence, but they also have a communication problem.

A standard assumption in computationally oriented semantics is that knowledge of the meaning of a sentence can be equated with knowledge of its truth conditions: that is, knowledge of what the world would be like if the sentence were true.

Dynamic semantics (e.g., [GS91a,GS91b]) takes the view that the standard truth-conditional view of sentence meaning deriving from the paradigm of FOPC does not do sufficient justice to the fact that uttering a sentence changes the context it was uttered in.

However, the relevant semantic properties of individual words or groups of words are seldom to be found in conventional dictionaries and closer cooperation between semanticists and computationally aware lexicographers is required.

With the semantics kicking in, the levels of integration of these two are also boosted considerably.

This is true because, as we said, semantics needs a "pattern" in order to recognize the pointers and what they point to.

This is the most common SERP we are seeing distribution and sprinking of keywords, breaking down and distribution of keyword phrases, lots of stemming results, possible semantics play etc, See these SERPs california health insurance or this one car shipping or this one time tracking software.

The goal of the formalsemantics is to complement the [XPath/XQuery] specification ([XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language] and [XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0]), by defining the meaning of [XPath/XQuery] expressions with mathematical rigor.

In particular, the dynamic semantics relates [XPath/XQuery] expressions to the XML value to which they evaluate, and the static semantics relates [XPath/XQuery] expressions to the XML Schema type that is inferred for that expression.

All primitive relational semantics important to the schema designer must be shoehorned into these crude syntactic structures, but the XML DTD processor will not be able to recognize the significance since no additional "meaning" can be attached to them.

First, we must remember that SGML was given birth in the context of "document publishing." Indeed, one of the chief concerns addressed by SGML was that it be able to "achieve typographic results comparable to procedural markup" for high-quality printing of marked-up documents [8879 Annex A].

This is because the semantics of the markup bears an implicit one-to-one mapping to its syntax.

semantics, functional role - The meaning of a representation is the role of that representation in the cognitive life of the agent.

functional role semantics], the meaning of a representation is the role of that representation in the cognitive life of the agent, e.g.

The view has arisen separately in philosophy (where it is sometimes called "inferential," or "functional" role semantics) and in cognitive science (where it is sometimes called "procedural semantics").

Models for semantics have not caught-on to the same extent that BNF and its descendants have in syntax.

As originally presented, its semantics are defined by its conversion rules and these are purely syntactic - they could be implemented in a decent text editor or macro-processor.

We prefer to have semantics based on abstract objects rather than on purely syntactic rules which might be meaningless or ambiguous, or on concrete objects which might be implementation dependent or superseded.

As a direct result of my exposure to general semantics, in conjunction with my own extensive mathematics, physics, engineering, military, and computer science backgrounds, I went into the study of philosophy with the explicit purpose of clarifying the theoretical foundations of general semantics.

As a theory, general semantics "is" a forerunner of genetic epistemology.

The primary application of general semantics is in training individuals to view their environments using the general semantics world view, to think in terms of levels of abstraction, to use the extensional devices, to become aware of making assumptions, to extensionally check them out, and to be prepared for them to be wrong.

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Margaret Gorman, a Thomist philosopher and educator, in her 1962 study of general-semantics accepts Black's critique as a "closely reasoned paper" which shows Korzybski's "profound lack of understanding of what is asserted in Aristotelian logic...as well as the difficulties and confusions in the theory of abstraction..." (20).

This in turn requires us to determine how far semantic reactions are a faithful reflection of the physical reality outside the organism...a mere description of the physical world will not suffice for Korzybski's purpose; he requires criteria for distinguishing the "real" from the unreal or illusory.

The fact that four semantically entirely different words should have one sound and spelling appears as a genuine tragedy of the race; the more so since the discrimination between their uses is not always easy.

Semantics is the study of meaning, fully developed, Semantics could well be key in a Great Leap Forward in search technology.

Well, Semantics is a multi-tool for Google, unfocused it can be used to broad-match the main index into rough categories, focused, it can determine both the topic of a page, and its' relevance to that topic.

As mentioned, these are early days in Googles' use of Semantics, which I see as a gradual process rather than a sudden off/on switch, and there may well be some self-learning involved in it, where increasing use brings increasing refinement.

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However, an operational semantics is more precise than an interpreter because it is defined mathematically, and not based on the meaning of the language in which the interpreter is written.

An operational semantics for a programming language is a means for understanding in precise detail the meaning of an expression in the language.

The only difference between the operational semantics and the interpreter is that the interpreter is a function, so we start with the bottom-left expression in a rule, use the interpreter to recursively produce the value(s) above the line in the rule, and finally compute and return the value below the line in the rule.

Eventually I co-founded Open Text and did search engines and drifted into the SGML community, and was nervous about the notion of semantics as early as 1992; a certain proportion of that community asserted that SGML markup was semantic and that the semantics came from the DTD.

The first time I saw this happen was a dozen years ago on the dictionary project, when we started running statistical analysis of the millions of supporting quotations used to illustrate word usages to track temporal patterns in the arrival into and departure from the language of English words.

Schemas · The existence of a schema (of whatever flavour) is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for attaching semantics to markup.

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